Google has announced Android Wear, their new SDK for wearables on the backbone of their open source mobile operating system. The head chief of Android Sundar Pichai did say Google would be adding this SDK at SXSW last week.
Android Wear is mostly a dumbed down version of Android, to the basic components of Google Now. Voice recognition is the way most of the platform works, along with contextual and glance-able information popping up on the screen.
The interface has all the hallmarks of Google’s new design, colorful red, green, blue and yellow applications and the cards interface, showing different messages, notifications, updates and reminders.
Google has revealed Asus, HTC, LG, Motorola, and Samsung will all be working on Android Wear in the coming months. We are surprised Samsung is getting involved, considering they have their own smartwatch interface, Tizen OS.
Motorola is the first manufacturer to come out and tease their new Moto 360, a smartwatch that wants to go back to the old classic smartwatch design. It will have a circle interface, appealing to people who do not want these futuristic style watches.
Motorola will make the Moto 360 brown and it will look like an old time-piece, save the touch-screen interface and Android Wear UI over the top. Reminds us of the smartwatch design on Behance, by Gabor Balogh.
We are excited to see what Motorola can come up with, HTC did wow us on the phone design front, but we still believe Motorola has the upper hand on Android when it comes to making top notch devices.
More devices will be teased in the upcoming months and we are sure to hear more information at Google I/O in June, all about wearables and how they will fit into our lives. Google should also be preparing to officially launch Google Glass to consumers this year, meaning they will have a grasp in both wearable markets.
